After recent photography work for the likes of Charli XCX and Offset, Hannah Diamond, the younger sister of Rhaegar Targaryen and Viserys Targaryen and only daughter of King Aerys II Targaryen and Queen Rhaella Targaryen, has returned to the music world with the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent DJ/realtor of the universe, Danny L Harle.
More about: Danny L Harle, Hannah Diamond
Styles: drone metal, free improvisation, humanist sludge
Others: Fushitsusha, Boris, Isis
1. Find or build a fire ring. Evaluate your environment before building or using an existing fire ring; avoid building fires or using fire rings located near brush or low-hanging branches, as even small fires can produce runaway embers that could easily ignite nearby flammables.
More about: Aaron Turner, Baptists, Brian Cook, Isis, Keiji Haino, Mamiffer, Nick Yacyshyn, Old Man Gloom, Russian Circles, Sumac, These Arms Are Snakes
Styles: please delete your account
Others: Sweet Trip, James Ferraro, Atari Teenage Riot
JPEGMAFIA makes music for the escapists on the fringe, the pursuers of connections and recreations, the individuals multiplying themselves across fantasy leagues and Twitter stan accounts. But it’s also music for what they represent: entities trapped in the floating ecology of the web, separated from their bodies by a formless nether that demands interaction, intrusion. You’re there. You’re not there.
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“People are strange. We’re all morticians. Hey, what’s on TV?”
– Ric Ocasek
From Pitchfork:
Ric Ocasek, best known as the founder and frontman of the iconic new wave and power pop band the Cars, has died. The New York Police Department confirmed to Pitchfork they responded to a call today that reported an unconscious man in a townhouse. The man, identified as Ocasek, was found in bed and pronounced dead at the scene. He was 75. […]
More about: Ric Ocasek, The Cars
We pay tribute to the incredible “cult” musician and artist
About a decade ago, I lifted my hungover head from the backseat armrest of a 2002 Honda Civic halfway to Austin, Texas and requested that my friends in the front seat play “Devil Town” by Daniel Johnston. They didn’t have that one on the iPod, but they could sing it for me:
I was livin’ in a devil town
Didn’t know it was a devil town
Oh Lord, it really brings me down
About the devil town
And all my friends were vampires
Didn’t know they were vampires
Turns out I was a vampire myself
In the devil town
I was livin’ in a devil town
More about: Daniel Johnston
Styles: rock, housewarming
Others: Elliott Smith, Neil Young, Frank Ocean
What if time looks less like an arrow than a house of sugar? Then there will be voices: flensed tenor, ramshackle falsetto, reedy autotune, bad man, he, I, Eddie, Lena, Hansel, Gretel, you, good people who got something to lose.
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Aki Onda shares a beautiful memorial essay on late filmmaker Paul Clipson ahead of new collaborative release
On September 20, audioMER. is releasing a new collaborative project by New York-based composer/artist/curator Aki Onda and the late San Francisco filmmaker Paul Clipson. Titled Make Visible The Ghosts, the four-track release features Onda’s soundtrack to Clipson’s large-size collage artwork, developed together over the course of two years and completed just a few months before Clipson passed away in 2018.
More about: Aki Onda, Paul Clipson
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A tribute to a filmmaker with one of the most compelling visions for North American cinema
While it’s remarkably easy to lose track of how many ascensions there may or may not have been throughout human history, it’s nearly IMPOSSIBLE to forget the spiritually transformative legacy of the late avant garde guitarist/composer Glenn Branca, who, during his career, seemingly managed to musically divine not one but two such miracles.
More about: Glenn Branca
Styles: what if One Beat were MassEduction?
Others: St. Vincent
When Sleater-Kinney released No Cities To Love in January 2015, it was the ass-kicking jumpstart the year needed. The iconic trio’s first album after a nearly decade-long hiatus, it was welcomed with open arms across the board. Critics and diehards alike linked hands across America to sing “Price Tag” and sway gently under the afternoon sun.
More about: Sleater-Kinney, St. Vincent
“Everybody, it’s gonna happen. You know it’s gonna happen. It happens every day. Billions and billions of people have already died. You too will die. Sing along with us, won’t you?”
– Daniel Johnston, “Funeral Home”
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